Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — For Morning Hours and Country Wear [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Morning Hours and Country Wear

If the female of the species longs to know in what sort of dress she is most fatal to the peace of’ mind of man, let her ask a few husbands; adroitly, of course, and not with a bald question. If you ask him what sort of dress he likes best the chances are he can't tell you, but if you ask him what sort of dress his wife wore when he met her or when he fell in love with her, his answer will be enlightening. Gentle the chances are that she was dressed in gingham and doing some useful thing—like sewing on buttons, or dusting the fur*niture, when she first looked good to him. Or maybe she was walking along a country road or gathering cherries. So here's the simple morning dress, may it continue to flourish! Two sweet dresses of the simple but effective kind just referred to keep One another company in the picture above. .. Ope of them is a smart little gingham, a one-pleCe frock with straight skirt slightly fulled to the bodice.' It has pockets with an upper portion turned; baek and fastened down with a button, sleeves that end in a simple band at the wrist and a demure surplice that crosses and has ends that are looped over in the back. This surplice is overlaid with a col-

lar of white bastlste edged with nar» row crochet or other strong lace. The dress at the left of-the picture employs striped and plain cotton in its conspiracy to be crisp and becom,ing in order to fit In with bright mornings and country ways. The wide girdle and front panel, with the lower part of the rounded pockets are all of the plain material. There are any number of striped and plain cottons In lovely colors that arp made to go together in these, morning, frocks. The bodice is fastened With snap fasteners at the left of the panel and with three large buttons at the left side of the girdle.